All in the Family 2016

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Above: Kathy is the matriarch of the Herbert clan and still very much involved with the business that her husband, Dick, started.

With a family business, long vacations are not typical. 'We're on call,' says Joe Herbert of Dick's Auto Sales, who does enjoy a few days off now and then with family. From left, Joe and Katie Herbert with children Ella, Evan, Maggie and Lanie.

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mong the dozens of photos on the walls of the repair shop and used car dealership is a picture of Maggie Herbert, now age 14, who was then too young to walk but just the right age to hold a wrench in her pint-size palm.

Maggie's sister, Ella, age 6, boasts her own drawer in the garage's tool cabinet that yields screwdrivers, ratchet drivers and cutting pliers.

Ten-year-old Lanie answers the phone. Brother Evan, age 12, in his spare time changes tires and accompanies staffer Jake Murphy on towing calls. “I run the tow bed, the winch, hooking up cars with chains,� said Evan. “Jake does the driver's side and I do the passenger side.�

But Evan also has plans for the future, when he hopes to run the family business, Dick's Auto Sales

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on Route 52 in Kohlertown. “We do car repairing, selling, towing and body work,� explained Evan. “My plan is to expand the selling and expand the body work.� “I like cars and trucks, and I like driving,� Evan said. “I have since I was little. I know this business and what's going on. It kind of runs in the family.�

Evan and his sisters represent the third generation of Herberts in the indispensable work of keeping local

cars running smoothly.

It's a true mom, pop and kids business, where a friendly sign proclaims “If U can't stop, wave!�

Grandma Kathy Herbert serves as part-time bookkeeper for her son and daughter-in-law Joe and Katie Herbert, at the business founded 52 years ago by husband Dick Herbert.

He died in 2014. “Joe and Katie are running Dick's Auto now,� said Kathy. “The focus is on them.�

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“Don't let her tell you that,� quips son Joe. “She's still very involved.�

Joe and his sister Jacki Mallett, who lives in South Carolina, grew up in the business, pumping gas and sweeping the floor well before they were in their teens. Their father taught them the meaning of hard work and “he was always there to keep us in line,� said Joe. Dick Herbert, who grew up on a farm in Fremont Center, began the car business in 1963 at a Shell Station (now a laundromat) across the street from Jeff Bank in Jeffersonville. Eventually Herbert moved twice, to a Texaco station where Justus Auto is now and to the current site, which sold Amoco gas.

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When he was 12 or 13, Joe Herbert began doing odds and ends at Dick's Auto Sales, run by his father. After college, he returned. “This is what I knew, and my father needed help,” said Joe. Since then, the business has quadrupled in size.

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sents the work of many beyond the Herbert family, says owner Joe. “Without all the people who work for us, we wouldn't be able to do this,” he said.

Apart from Murphy, Cameron Abplanalp, Tyson Gosley and Bob Kohler in the shop, Gloria Garn does office work. Numerous friends and family members help out. The key player among them is Mark Hubert, who married Katie Herbert's sister Audra.

“Mark worked for my dad for 22 years,” said Joe. “He is a big part of keeping everything going.”

Joe himself worked with his father for 20 years, returning home to Jeffersonville after college in Morrisville, N.Y. “I grew up in the business, went away to college, came back to help out and here I am,” said Joe, now 41.

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from the Jeff-Youngsville Central School, and the couple married in 1999. At first, they lived above the car business. A year later, they bought the house next door. Katie, a teacher for the Liberty school district until the couple began having children, now runs the Playful Learners Nursery School on North Branch Road. y “I do most of my bookkeeping work (for Dick's Auto) from home,” Katie said. “It's nice being home and having the kids able to be right next door, too. Joe and I work together on everything. The kids learn to help out – even on snow days, they're shoveling and cleaning snow off the cars – and they learn to help people.”

But the automotive business is challenging, and Dick's Auto is not exempt from facing the seismic shifts taking place in the industry.

“Cars are changing every day,” said Joe Herbert. “It's hard to keep

Joe Herbert up. You have to update tools and diagnostic equipment all the time, and it's expensive.”

But in the end, the satisfaction of helping people and working with family makes the effort meaningful.

“Dick and I worked side by side,” recalled Kathy Herbert. “I was his partner and he was mine. It was enjoyable. Now it's passed down to the next generation and the next.”

Twelve-year-old Evan Hubert delights in pondering the future.

“The business will be here,” he said. “It's good to know that we have somewhere to go – a place that's been in the family for 50 years.”

Evan Herbert, age 12, relishes making something new out of old, as in body work on cars.

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ometimes pasta can be boring and somewhat repetitive, with the same flavors and the same sauces. Northern Farmhouse Pasta really takes a step out of the box with technique and flavor, while still keeping it simple.

Northern Farmhouse Pasta is run and owned by Bob Eckert and his wife Jennifer, who reside in the hamlet of Roscoe, otherwise known as Trout Town. The small artisan business took off in 2011 but its history goes back much farther.

Bob is originally from Queens while Jennifer hails from Roscoe. They met each other by chance, at a friend’s wedding in the city. Although Bob was working for a large, successful construction company, they soon married and bought a house upstate while keeping his house in Queens.

Bob commuted to the city on Mondays and back to Roscoe on Fridays, spending the weekends with

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One aspect of Bob’s construction job was to take clients out to dinner,

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inspiration continually growing.

“One day I realized-my stepson was about to turn 21 and my youngest one was growing so fast; I didn’t want to miss out anymore because I was so busy working and away during the week,” said Bob. “That’s when I started to think, something needs to change. So I began brainstorming about what I could do. Should I farm upstate? Should I grow mushrooms?

Then it came to me, ‘pasta’.”

Bob started making dough and handcranking pasta in his home in Queens – just to experiment – and began handing it out to friends as gifts for them to try. His pasta was a hit, the flavors different and unique; friends and family encouraged him to start selling.

So in July of 2011, Bob and Jennifer, set up a stand at the Roscoe Farmers Market and Northern Farmhouse Pasta was born. It was when they started selling at the Callicoon

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Owners of the family business, Bob and wife, Jennifer Eckert, inside their rustic Northern Farmhouse Pasta shop in Roscoe.

Farmers Market, that they realized a pasta-making machine was essential to the business. Within two months, and with the business doing so well, they decided to sell the house in Queens and use some of that money to finally buy a machine. The business gained momentum in 2012, and in addition to selling at the farmers markets, their pastas were also being sold in various stores across eight states, as well as individual orders.

What makes Northern Farmhouse Pasta so unique is that all of their ingredients are locally sourced. They are the first and only pasta business that uses locally grown wheat from a small farm upstate that grows only about 25 acres. The cheese for their ravioli is from Tonjes Farm Dairy in Callicoon; the mushrooms are foraged from the forest or grown, an art not commonly practiced here. Their vegetables are sourced from area farms, and they also have their own

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Soon after opening the store, they began serving dinner on Friday and Saturday nights. Bob is the chef and every weekend he creates a different menu depending on what’s in season, with both meat and vegetarian options available. They were so busy towards the end of the summer that they had to switch to reservation only, and at times turn people away. Yet, they don’t want to expand, focusing on their product and its quality, rather than making more seats in the restaurant.

Jennifer said of her husband, “I thought he was crazy when he started all of this.” Laughing, she continued, The Wood Fired Portobello Fettuccine is a “I still sometimes think he’s crazy, but big hit with a nice smokey flavor. people love the product. It works.”

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The Eckerts decided to open up a shop last year at 64 Rockland Road, in an old refurbished farmhouse on 40 acres of land, just down the road from the center of town. There they are able to display an assortment of pastas as well as sell their signature, freshly made ravioli. They keep it simple by using no more than six ingredients (two of them being salt and pepper), rather than the 30 or more unpronounceable ingredients you find in

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Jennifer takes care of most of the behind-the-scenes aspects of the business, so you may not always see her at the front of the shop.

Northern Farmhouse Pasta was recently featured on the Food y Network channel, on a show called “Great American Food Finds” and ShopRite recently came to the Eckerts to talk about selling their pastas and raviolis in their stores. There may also be another possible TV y show in the works for the couple.

Smiling, Bob concluded, “I get to be a kid most of the day. Making pasta is like playing with playdough. The best g part is, this went from a passion to a business, so I get to be with my family while enjoying what I do.”

There is a rustic, artisan, home-y feeling inside the local shop of Northern Farmhouse Pasta where a variety of fresh pastas (their signature ravioli, gnocchi, rotini, linguine, fettuccine) in a variety of different flavors are sold.

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orty-three years ago, Paul A. Rouis, Jr. opened his CPA firm in Wurtsboro, and while he had visions of a successful future in business, no thoughts or plans were ever given to the possibility of being joined by any of his four children.

As the years passed, his son Paul A. Rouis, III became an engineer and relocated to the Saratoga area, and daughters Dina and Aimee opted to be teachers in local schools.

However, following his graduation from St. Bonaventure and after a few years working for an accounting firm in Westchester, son Jonathan joined his father’s practice in 1997.

Two years later, the father-son team was transformed into a successful partnership at Rouis & Company.

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Asked if working together presents any challenges, Paul responds, “We’ve always gotten along very well and although it never occurred to me when Jonathan was growing up that we would be working together, we have created a unique family business.”

Jonathan adds, “It’s great to see your father every day and as a multi-generational partnership, we

appeal to many clients who may also work with other family businesses.”

In addition to sharing professional interests, Paul and Jonathan are known for their political, charitable and community involvement.

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knowing we are both familiar with each other’s work and enjoy the less formal environment in our office.

We are public relations related people who fight the image many may have of an accountant,” he continued, “What tends to surprise people is in a parent-child client situation, I tend to gravitate toward the child while Jonathan relates well with the parent.”

For Jonathan, working with family is best described as, “A great opportunity. It is certainly worth doing.”

Asked if he thinks any of his ten grandchildren may someday be employed by the family firm, Paul answers, “Well, we have five boys and five girls between my four children. One has graduated with a finance degree from Iona, but I don’t think he will join us at this

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time. However, you just don’t know.”

Father and son agree that all of the children are encouraged to pursue their own interests and the family supports their choices.

“My older son, Jonathan II, is currently pursuing his college education and will more likely follow the path of his uncle in engineering,” answered Jonathan, “and we will wait and see what my younger son, Alexander, decides.”

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rying to get all three principals of the Resnick Companies together is nearly impossible. Trying to sit down patriarch Billy and his sons, Butch and Randy, is like playing a game of “catch me if you can,” as all three men are in constant motion, and not necessarily in the same place at the same time.

This is understandable, considering the scope and breadth of the work that they do under the umbrella of their many different companies.

Even finding a starting point is difficult, so perhaps the best place to begin is at Billy's beginning.

In 1970, a 17-year-old Billy Resnick “ended up” in Sullivan County after his car broke down here on his way to upstate New York. He never left. “My first job was de-beaking and inoculating chickens,” he said proudly. A series of other odd jobs led him to his own landscaping business, which ended suddenly during the gas crisis of 1974. “It was like a switch turned off,” he explained. “So I started buying and selling stuff,” and Resnick Supermarket Equipment Supply was born.

Eventually, his sons came to work for the business, especially Butch, who, having dropped out of school, began working full time for his dad at age 17. “I started as a truck driver’s helper – and got to know all of the ins and outs of the business,” he said.

Butch took over the Supermarket Equipment business 15 years ago and since that time, he and Randy have grown the Resnick empire to include a supermarket equipment

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parts business, the Coffee Factory (a coffee roasting business), Daniel Resnick Rentals (90 rental properties total), The Sullivan Hotel (which is in the process of becoming a Ramada flagged hotel), BHR (formerly the iconic 50-year-old mainstay Bernie's Holiday Restaurant), Crust Italian Eatery (serves pizza, yes, but has a full Italian cuisine menu as well), Brew (closed for now, but a reworked version will open in the spring), the Resnick Industrial Park in Glen Wild (comprised of eight lots for industrial businesses, two of which are now occupied), Fanatics Bar and Grill and Resnick Energy.

Ongoing, large renovation projects include Main Street Mountaindale, where they own numerous buildings and storefronts on Main Street, renovating and renting them. And of course, the Apollo Plaza, the longabandoned mall in Monticello. Both are behemoth and ambitious projects, but it should be obvious by now that the Resnicks are “all in” when it comes to investing and believing in Sullivan County.

While Billy is largely retired, he still lends his experience and advice to his sons. Randy, a long-time chef and restauranteur (he and Butch owned and operated the legendary Dodge Inn in the ‘90s), is responsible for the operation of BHR, Crust, Fanatics, Brew and all catering that takes place at BHR and the Sullivan.

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during the winter months. This spring, Resnick Energy l will expand to include propane, because according to Randy, “with all of our various businesses, the Resnick Group is a huge consumer of propane. We'd be crazy not to get into the business.”

The catering business, according to Randy, has really become the bigger part of the food service businesses, and helped fulfill the need in Sullivan County for banquet-sized rooms for larger and mid-sized events. “The catering has grown tremendously, and we love doing it,” said Randy.

“We have over 30 weddings this year so far. That's amazing.”

“None of this comes easy,” said Butch. “The bottom line is that no one works harder than us. We are one of the top five taxpayers in the Town of Fallsburg, so that should give you an idea of how deeply invested we are in this community. This is our home – we grew up here. Our goal has always been to bring back life to Sullivan County.”

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Working on breathing new life into what was recently a modern-day ghost town, the work the Resnicks are doing in Mountaindale will leave those who haven't visited in a while happily surprised.

“In our restored buildings we have tenants including a furniture manufacturer, a company that produces organic toothpaste and the general store will be open again soon,” said Butch. “We have a new company coming into our Glen Wild Industrial Park, that is building a factory that makes specialized airplane parts, so we're also bringing living wage jobs to the area.

“I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman,” explained Butch. “Sullivan County had a defeatist mindset – I have a different mindset. Our life is based on recycling. My father taught us how to make old supermarket equipment run like new again, and we've applied that concept to every level of our lives. That's what we need to do in Sullivan County.”

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On the cover: Butch, left with his father, Billy, in the lobby of the Sullivan Hotel, which will soon be under the Ramada flag.

These two pages: Randy Resnick, hard at work on the catering end of the Resnick restaurant businesses.

While Randy agrees that Sullivan County is in need of a re-tooling, going totally old-school won't do.

Those days are gone. “We need to market ourselves as 'updated-oldschool Sullivan County' – build on

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